Founder of Ethnic Supplies a social enterprise working to alleviate poverty amongst East African women involved in textile and handicraft production. Managing Editor of Africa on the blog
Does Diane Abbott speak for me?
An almighty race row broke out yesterday following a tweet by Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. The tweet said “White people love playing divide and rule and we should not play their game”. This was part of an exchange between her and journalist Bim Adewunmi you can follow the exchange on [...]
2 charities fundraising | Birds 12 days of Christmas
Two of the Birds from Birds on the Blog run very different charities, and for the second day of Christmas we thought it might be interesting to interview each other about them, using the same questions! Firstly, Let Them Help Themselves Out of Poverty, run by Ida Horner. Jane: What motivated you to start Let [...]
All they want for Xmas is a Toilet of their own
Having access to a toilet is something that we in the West take for granted as Angela explained on WORLD TOILET DAY. The lack of access to sanitation including a toilet has implications for at least 2.6 Billion folk in the developing world Mark Tran explains in The Guardian, Sanitation related diseases such as diarrhoea [...]
Property: Why the “right to buy” is wrong
If you have followed the news recently you may have heard about the government’s plan to revive the right to buy- which means that long standing council tenants can buy their homes at a large discount or below its market value. The first round of right to buy under the Thatcher government made council tenants [...]
Lets talk about Food #bad11
It is world food day and the theme for BLOG ACTION DAY 2011 is food. Over at Ethnic Supplies blog I have asked the question What are the poor doing to secure their food? It would appear that the odds are stacked against them, they pay more for food, in Africa folk are losing their land [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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